Well, it works well enough in python as long as all of the restrictions are adhered to (see https://docs.python.org/2/library/signal.html).
BTW I opened an issue about this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14675 On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:27:18 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > You are probably going to have to use ccall anyway to do things like save > state. Only a limited set of system calls are available to signal > handlers, see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html, and you > can't rely on normal Julia IO to only use the allowed ones. Same for > anything else that uses system calls. > > On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:29:26 PM UTC+10, John Travers wrote: >> >> I know this, but this can be very important for codes running on >> simulation servers. Often signals are used to tell a process to save state >> and shut down as it is going to be moved to another system or the server >> needs maintenance. I have to handle SIGINT to do exactly this on our >> simulation systems (currently I run python and C++ codes which can do >> this). For this reason it would be useful to easily register julia >> functions as signal handlers so that we can achieve something like this. >> >> Of course I could ccall, but I'd rather have an official way to do this. >> >> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 1:55:04 PM UTC+1, Yichao Yu wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:37 AM, John Travers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > No, I'm looking for operating system signal handling, like SIGINT etc. >>> > Something like the python `signal` module. >>> >>> Note that the signal handler is global and julia relies on a number of >>> them to function correctly. >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:25:13 AM UTC+1, Eric Forgy wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Is this what you are looking for? >>> >> >>> >> http://julialang.org/Reactive.jl/ >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 6:16:20 PM UTC+8, John Travers >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Is there a way to handle signals in julia (i.e. to register handlers >>> >>> etc.)? >>> >>> >>> > >>> >>
